e the half is catching it, while he is preparing to kick,
while he is kicking, and just as it leaves his foot.

If the kick is safely made, every endeavor should go toward neutralizing
its effect. This can be done by good and rapid team-play only, for,
after all, the longest kick is of no great avail to your opponent unless
he can keep the ball in the territory he has sent it into. The first
thing to do, therefore, to neutralize his attack is to stop the opposing
ends who are following the ball, and the next important thing is to give
full and perfect protection to your own man, who is receiving the ball.
It depends upon the style of the kick, however, as to which of these two
moves is of the greatest importance, for if the kick is a high one
little can be done against the on-coming ends, and every effort should
be made to protect the catcher. On the other hand, if the kick is a long
and low one, the catcher will need less protection, and more men can be
spared to head off the advance of the opposing rush-line.

The final point of the play is the return of the ball, and on the
quickness and coolness of the back depends its success. As a rule it is
better for him to run with the ball, for the field is scattered with
players, and comparatively clear, and by running the side retains
possession of the ball and the chance to make one or more attacking
moves that may end in a full recovery of the ground covered by the
opponents' kick.

THE GRADUATE.

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"You ought to be ashamed to ride that wheel."

"Why? That's what it's made for."

"Can't you see that it's 'tired'?"

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This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should
address Editor Stamp Department.

_The Numismatist_ states that only 738 U. S. silver dollars were coined
in 1894, and that it bids fair to rival its hundred-year older brother
(1794) in rarity and value.

The National Bank-Note Company printed all the U.S. stamps from 1870 to
1872. In 1873 they turned over all the plates to the Continental
Bank-Note Company which printed the U.S. stamps until the formation of
the American Bank-Note Company in 1879. To distinguish the stamps
printed by them, the Continental Company placed secret marks on probably
every plate, although th